Allen Ginsberg
Born
3 June 1926 (99)
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Also known as
Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ginsberg
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his t...
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (40)
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
Nova '78
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025
A Supermarket in Californi
2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Why Is We Americans?
2022
The Velvet Underground
2021
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018
Take Your Pills
2018
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
Beat Generation
2014
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
The Beat Hotel
2012
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
Howl
2010
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
65 Revisited
2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
To John With Love
2006
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
The Cockettes
2002
American Magus
2002
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Condo Painting
2000